Text-to-911.
TEXTING
CALLING
HELPING
THE COMMISSION
The Commission has recently taken steps to make text-to-911 more widely available in the future. On August 8, 2014, the Commission adopted an order that will require all wireless carriers and other text messaging providers that enable consumers to send text messages to and from U.S. phone numbers to deliver emergency texts to PSAPs that request them. Wireless carriers and other text messaging providers that were not already supporting text-to-911 were directed to be capable of doing so by the end of 2014, and must respond to PSAP requests to deliver text-to-911 by June 30, 2015, or six months from the date of the PSAP’s request, whichever is later.
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CLIENTS SAVED
An upstate teen and his grandfather endured three terrifying hours stranded in a muddy marsh after their canoe capsized. They were saved Wednesday night only by texting for help.
Thomas Mulvaney
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This is the original form of dialing 911, and it still remains an option.
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ANONYMOUS
On Sunday night, 911 dispatcher Rodney Gill took a call and after asking the standard, “911, where’s your emergency?” greeting, he heard static and yelling in the background. He stayed on the line until the call hung up, approximately two minutes, according to the FOX 59 report.
Soon after, Gill received a text message from the same number.
The message: “Pls help.”